Note 841 — Chapter VI · OLD ENGLISH WIFE-PURCHASE YIELDS TO FREE MARRIAGE
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Anglo-Saxon weotuma: Ælfred, Ecc. Laws, 12, 29: Schmid, Gesetze, 58, 62. Schroeder uses the term Muntschatz, which, however, is only found in Friesic law: Sohm, Eheschliessung, 33, note. Some form of weotuma appears in many dialects: Old German widemo, giving rise to Witthum; Longobardian meta; Burgundian wittemon; Friesic wetma (wethma, weetma); Alamannian widem: Schroeder Güterrecht, I, 46, 47, 24; Schmid, op. cit., 675; Grimm, Rechtsalterthümer, 422-24; Young, in Essays, 165; Weinhold, Deutsche Frauen, I, 320, note, 336, passim; Schroeder, Rechtsgeschichte, 291, note, 161. Cf. Eckhardt, "Das Witthum," in Zeitsch. für deutsches Recht, X, 437 ff.; Hellwald, Die mensch. Familie, 315, 316; Smith, La famille chez les Burgondes, 5 ff.